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Year in Review: Gift of steroids keeps on giving

Mouse muscles stay juiced long after doping ends

PUMPED UP Muscles in mice treated with steroids (right) grow bigger than muscles in undrugged mice (left). Steroids also increase the number of a muscle cell’s nuclei, which may help rebuild mass long after the steroids are gone.

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